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<\/a><\/p>\nBEST CHINESE MEAL I HAVE EVER HAD. The spices brought out the flavor profile of the food. After eating Americanized Chinese food all my life, I felt like I had finally found the real thing. 10\/10, will go back.<\/p>\n
… And when I go back, I want to try the Sichuan fried rice. I love fried rice and measure Chinese restaurants by how well they do it.<\/p>\n
It’s been a very weird morning. I stayed out last night, and about 7 AM I was sitting on a bench outside the Moxy Hotel, texting my friend Randy the latest gossip about our favorite bar. A man I’d seen digging through garbage cans came straight up to me.<\/p>\n
“Hey, mane, lemme see your phone,” he said, grabbing for it.<\/p>\n
I pulled back, keeping the phone out of his reach. “Come on, man, lemme take a look at it, don’t you know who I am?” he said, grabbing a couple more times.<\/p>\n
“NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! GET AWAY, GET AWAY, GET AWAY!” I yelled at the top of my lungs. That backed him up and I grabbed my bag and moved far away from him.<\/p>\n
He proceeded to go into both Walgreens and the Main Street Smoke Shop and take stuff and tear stuff up. He turned east on Monroe, where he climbed atop a white Camry and proceeded to try to cave the roof in by stomping on it.<\/p>\n
The police were on their way last I saw of him.<\/p>\n
Just a short time after his farewell concert, Ozzy Osbourne is dead at 76<\/a>. He’s another celebrity who had Parkinson’s among his health issues.<\/p>\n The Showboats UFL football team is leaving Memphis.<\/a> Really, who cares?<\/p>\n The Old Daisy Theater on Beale is on its way<\/a> to becoming a historic education center.<\/p>\n Through 8\/27, Wednesdays are Arkansas Days at Momma’s. Show your valid Arkansas ID between 7 AM and 1 AM to get<\/p>\n Easy access from Arkansas via the newly completed I-55\/Crump roundabout.<\/p>\n Soulin’ on the River<\/a> featuring Talibah Safiya happens at Fourth Bluff Friday night.<\/p>\n That’s all for today. Back tomorrow.<\/p>\n I gratefully accept tips:<\/strong><\/em> For months now, I’ve been wanting to try Little Petals, the Chinese restaurant on Madison next door to the First Horizon office tower. I’d heard that Little Petals – and its sibling restaurant, Petals of a Peony – feature food cooked in the style of China’s Sichuan region, making extensive use of spices. I love … Continue reading “Wednesday update”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28905"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28908,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28905\/revisions\/28908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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